Best of John Around the Internet

I write on a number of different industry blogs. Some of my posts have been very well received, others did not get the airtime I had hoped. Here are my top 5 posts from this site (by social mentions) and my posts from around the Internet.

Johnfdoherty.com

Google’s Hidden Author Search
In this post, I uncover a way to search Google by author. I also provide a bookmarklet to use for your own purposes, as well as provide a Screencast video about how to use it.

Minimum Viable Keyword Research
This is the basics of keyword research, the minimum you need to know in order to start doing keyword research for your own website or blog.

Brand Voice Marketing (aka Shut Up About Yourself)
Don’t just talk about yourself on your site. Produce the content that your users want to see. Provide them information and knowledge, not self-promotional drivel.

11 Ways to Drive Traffic To Your Website
There are many general posts about driving traffic to your site. This one links to many resources that can help get you started with the different traffic avenues.

SEO is Not Your Whole Marketing Strategy
This post was inspired by seeing companies who think that SEO will solve all their problems. I disagree and think that companies need to realize that SEO is a part that fits into a larger online marketing strategy.

SEO for Longtail
In this post I detailed some ways that I have seen to rock the longtail of SEO for clients in new niches, or niches where head terms do not exist readily. The community loved it!

Social Network Spam and Author/Agent Rank
Following my talk at SMX East about using Facebook and Twitter for SEO, I wrote this post about social network spam and how the search engines might catch it. Worth the read for the graphs, for sure.

Distilled

Producing Great Content With No Budget (The Equity of Content Production)
This post came about because of people complaining about not having money to produce content. I outlined the three types of equity people have to create content. You need at least one – time, money, talent.

Google+
I was privileged to write a first look at Google+ on the Distilled blog. It was an exciting day.

Wordstream

3 Ways to Scale Linkbuilding with Google Docs
I wrote a guest post for Wordstream, complete with a Google spreadsheet template, for teams to use to scale linkbuilding when they do not have funds for expensive CRMs like Buzzstream.

The Everywhereist

Dispatches from Occupy Wall Street and the NYC Subway
I wrote a guest post for travel blogger Geraldine Deruiter, who I met through my work because her husband runs SEOmoz. Geraldine saw my photos of life in NYC and asked me to write this post. I was glad to share!

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Hi I'm John Doherty, the founder of Credo and author of this blog. I am an entrepreneur and growth marketer based in Denver Colorado (though often traveling the world), where I live with my wife and our very large black labrador Butterbean.